New Movie Releases, Reviews, News for Upcoming Movies in 2. Memorable Seventies Made For TV Movies presents. Memorable Seventies Made For TV Movies. Childrens, 1. 97. Josh Albee, Jeff Tyler, Buddy Ebsen, Jane Wyatt, Vic Morrow, Chris Wiggins. Directed by James Neilson. Turbo Kid. Created by an idiosyncratic Canadian filmmaking collective, Turbo Kid is a goresoaked postapocalyptic homage to classic 80s scifi flicks with a. After three seasons telling the story of the burgeoning Rebel Alliance, the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels is finally going to show that central piece of. Its not the definitive Mark Twain classic, but not entirely abysmal, either. If your kids havent seen any of the numerous versions available, they might enjoy the antics of Tom, his pal Huckleberry Finn, and the villianous Injun Joe. Sci Fi Movies Dvd Migration InformationBut no film of this tale has ever truly captured the earthy humor and twangy charm of the original. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 3Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, Jamie Smith Jackson, Kent Smith, Frances Reid, Pat Harrington. Directed by Gilbert Cates. Sensitive, careful handling of a 3. Wood experiencing her first love affair with a lawyer Wagner. Excellent cast, expert script by Barbara Turner. Above average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 7Leigh J. Mc. Closkey, Eve Plumb, Earl Holliman, Juliet Mills, Jean Hagen, Lonnie Chapman. Directed by John Erman. In this sequel to Dawn Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, a country boy turned Hollywood hustler Mc. Closkey tries to find legitimate work in order to marry a teen aged prostitute Plumb he had hoped to regenerate, but gets involved with a homosexual football pro. A sordid tale, with Mc. Closkey aping Jon Voights Midnight Cowboy characterization. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. ActionAdventure, 1. Richard Thomas, Patricia Neal, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasance, Ernest Borgnine. Directed by Delbert Mann. It isnt often that a TV remake can hold its own with a recognized movie classic, but this expertly crafted and memorably acted drama bears comparison with its illustrious 1. Hollywood original. Although it lacks the power of its distinguished predecessor, this credible production touches our emotions and shakes us out of our complacency as it unfolds the tale of an idealistic German student turned soldier who comes of age on a World War I battlefield. The pain and anger of Remarques antiwar novel is captured with force and incisiveness, making this another enduring pacifist drama. Above average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Comedy, 1. 97. 8Neil Innes, Eric Idle, Rikki Fataar, John Halsey. Directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis. All You Need Is Cash was a film spoof on The Beatles featuring a satirical group calling themselves The Rutles. The group, comprised of Ron Nasty Innes, Dirk Mc. Quickly Idle, Stig OHara Fataar, and Barry Wom Halsey, portrayed characters based on The Beatles and performed original material, written by Innes, based on The Beatles music. The show aired in the U. S. on March 2. 2, 1. Beatle George Harrison. The idea for The Rutles was conceived by Idle, who first presented a film of the group performing which was shown on the NBC TV show Saturday Night Live. Above average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 7Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton, Tovah Feldshuh, Lee Purcell, Jim Antonio, Sorrell Brooke, Arthur Franz. A surprisingly colorless account of the reclusive millionaires life. Jones dull performance is easily overshadowed by Flanders as associate Noah Dietrich and Feldshuh as Katherine Hepburn. But there is occasional intrigue in this ambitious production. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 9Henry Winkler, David Wayne, Dorian Harewood, Chris Wiggins, R. H. Thompson, Susan Hogan. Directed by Eric Till. A lot of facial putty turns The Fonz into Scrooge for this update of Dickens classic set in a Depression era New England town. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 9Colleen Dewhurst, Warren Oates, Maggie Cooper, Mildred Dunnock, Timothy Hutton, Allyn Ann Mc. Lerie. Directed by Waris Hussein. A middle aged couple with three grown children face parenthood again. Dewhurst pulls this one up by its bootstraps. Script by Shelley Ligt. Above average. The director and three of the main cast return the following year for an inferior sequel, Baby Comes Home. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 9Sally Struthers, James Woods, Randee Heller, Penny Stanton, Titos Vandis. Directed by Richard Michaels. Earnest drama about a couple trying to cope with their young son discovered to be deaf after being wrongly institutionalized as retarded. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. MysterySuspense, 1. Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner, Tony Bill, Robin Mattson, Tricia ONeill, Dennis Quaid. Directed by Walter Grauman. Predictable thriller about a high school coed who is the target of a terror campaign. Unsatisfactory adaptation of Richard Pecks Edgar Mystery Award winning novel. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. HorrorScience Fiction, 1. Monte Markham, Jackie Cooper, Susan Clark, Robert Lansing, Wally Schirra. Directed by Robert Michael Lewis. Space officials involved in a cover up, ask an ex pilot to pose as a lookalike astronaut who died on Mars. Average. Drama, 1. Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman, Andrew Duggan, Ed Flanders, George Grizzard, L. Q. Jones, Geoffrey Lewis, Maryln Mason, Wayne Rogers, Peter Strauss, Rip Torn. Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. 2. 15 min. Docu drama from FBI files, tying the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1. Klan after a four year investigation. Good cast and intelligent approach to a basically formula plot. Calvin Clements teleplay was based on Don Whiteheads book. Above average. Drama, 1. Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy, Odetta, Thalmus Rasulala. Directed by John Korty. Acclaimed drama from Ernest J. Gaines epic novel covering, through the memories of a fictional 1. Tyson, the black experience from the Civil War to the start of the civil rights movement. Tysons tour de force performance, Kortys subtle direction, and Tracy Keenan Wynns intelligent script accounted for three of the nine Emmy Awards given to the film, one of the most ambitious ever made for television. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. MysterySuspense, 1. Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter, John Fiedler. Directed by Buzz Kulik. A family with three daughters moves into an old house unaware that it has a secret room occupied by a psychopathic teenager who has murdered a taunting peer. An intriguing little thriller adapted by Andrew Peter Martin from the John Holbrook Vance novel. Above average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. HorrorScience Fiction, 1. Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles, Rachel Roberts, Jewel Branch, Christopher Benjamin. Directed by Phillip Leacock. Contrived but enjoyable race against time thriller by Theodore Apstein with Nimoy as an American race driver whose visions convince an ESP expert Hampshire that people in vision are in danger. An unsuccessful television pilot. Above average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. Drama, 1. 97. 8Karen Grassle, Le. Var Burton, Mike Farrell, Joan Blondell, Howard Duff, Chip Fields. Directed by Peter Werner. Absorbing and disturbing drama interweaves three stories of wife beating victims Grassle also co wrote this teleplay with Cynthia Lovelace Sears. Average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. HorrorScience Fiction, 1. Cult Horror Movies Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts. Burl Ives, Leigh Mc. Closkey, Julie Woodson, Carl Weathers, Connie Sellecca. Directed by Tom Katani. A mysterious beauty and a prehistoric monster puzzle some scientists but offer no challenge to the viewer crummy sci fi. Below average. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. ActionAdventure, 1. Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson. Directed by Richard Moder. This series pilot is right up there with earth shoes, disco dancing, and Watergate among the important reasons we should all be embarrassed that the 1. We admit it we preferred Lindsay Wagner running in slow motion as Jaime Sommers to robot Lee Majors as robot Steve Austin, but reallyWagners winsomeness doesnt overcome the nonsensical plot. This is what you bought a VCR to escape. Buy the DVDVHS at Amazon. ActionAdventure, 1. Le. Var Burton, Ossie Davis, Dolph Sweet, Michael Constantine, Tina Andrews.
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